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Re-use Multi CAD Data Easily

Synchronous Technology allows users to reuse data from other CAD systems without remodelling. Users can succeed in a multi-CAD environment with a fast, flexible system that enables them to edit other CAD system data faster than they can in the original system, regardless of the design methodology. A technique called ’suggestive selection’ automatically infers the [...]

Jon Sutcliffe | May 1st, 2008 | Continued

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CAD So Easy Anyone Can Use It

Synchronous Technology provides a new user interaction experience that simplifies CAD and makes 3D as easy to use as 2D. The interaction paradigm merges historically independent 2D and 3D environments, providing the robustness of a mature 3D modeller with the ease of 2D. New inference technology automatically infers common constraints and executes typical commands based on [...]

Jon Sutcliffe | May 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Make Design Changes Fast

Synchronous Technology automates the implementation of planned or unplanned design changes to seconds versus hours thorough unparalleled ease of editing, regardless of design origination, with or without the presence of a history tree.
The next release of Solid Edge due summer 2008 will include Synchronous Technology

Jon Sutcliffe | May 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Capture Ideas Fast

Synchronous Technology captures ideas as fast as the user thinks them, with up to 100 times faster design experience. Designers can devote more time to innovation with new techniques that provide the efficiency of parametric dimension-driven modelling without the computational overhead of pre-planned dependencies. The technology defines optionally persistent dimensions, parameters and design rules at [...]

Jon Sutcliffe | April 29th, 2008 | Continued

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Solid Edge – Data Management Made Easy

Throughout the many years I have been involved with Solid Edge, one of the things I enjoy most is interacting with customers and listening to what they are trying to achieve in their design process and what they need out of their software.
One hurdle often encountered is the need to find design information as quickly [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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Solid Edge ST3 Interface Enhancements

We have been seeing some really positive information creep out with regards to Solid Edge ST3 which is due to ship later this year (probably October). What appears to be happening that is that Siemens really seem to have been listening to their customers recently. This is testament to the number of customer driven enhancements [...]

August 12th, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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What’s Your Best Tip For Solid Edge

I hate to admit it but I was doing some work with Solid Edge on my laptop the other day and I couldn’t find the model I needed to modify.
I looked at my hard drive. The area where I store my data was 101GB in size containing 4,806 folders and 37,279 files.
It took me over [...]

July 22nd, 2010 | Arthur Sexton | 0 comments | Continued
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Solid Edge Survey – Have Your Say on the Future

It seems that changes are afoot at Siemens PLM and there is a new drive to improve the way they listen to and interact with their customers. They have recognised that whilst Solid Edge, and the other products in the Velocity portfolio, have a lot of potential there is always a great deal of room [...]

July 2nd, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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More Solid Edge ST3 News

The Siemens PLM Connection annual user’s conference is currently underway in Dallas, Texas. The Solid Edge kick off presentation at this event provided some great information regarding what we are likely to see in the next major release – Solid Edge ST3.
The first impressions of Solid Edge ST3 are that it promises to be bigger [...]

June 29th, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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Solid Edge ST3 Sneak Peak

We are nearing that time of year again when the latest and greatest, next version of Solid Edge will be unveiled to the public. This gives us chance to start learning about the great new enhancements that will help us design faster and smarter than ever before.
Even though there is no information publicly available just [...]

March 31st, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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Using Google Search for Solid Edge Training Videos

If you’re like me you probably use the Google search engine on a daily basis to find information.
We all probably use Google far more heavily than we realise. It’s become second nature….want to find something… we’ll Google it.
Usually we’ll do a search by just typing in a few keywords relative to the information we [...]

February 17th, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 2 comments | Continued
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A New Solid Edge Community Is Born

At 2:00 PM GMT on Thursday 19th November, Solid Mastermind. was launched to the global Solid Edge community.

So what is Solid Mastermind all about?
Solid Mastermind is THE community for Solid Edge professionals. Think of it as The International Association, Alliance, Federation, Guild, League, Order, Society or Syndicate of Solid Edge Professionals.
Solid Mastermind is about you. [...]

November 26th, 2009 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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Solid Edge Drawing Border Utility

Our last few posts discussed the availability of some free Solid Edge training material. This time we have information about an invaluable FREE Solid Edge utility. There can be occasions when drawing sheets or background graphics in existing draft files need to be modified in some way. Maybe our original templates were generated way back when [...] October 22nd, 2009 | Jon Sutcliffe | 3 comments | Continued